Observations

Examples

• The professor made me great acknowledgments for communicating these observations, and promised to make honourable mention of me in his treatise. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Our conscious thoughts, observations, wishes, aversions are important, because they represent inchoate, nascent activities. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• It's my duty to inform you that any observations you may make will be liable to be used against you. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• A few commonplace observations will help to explain its action. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• But certainly she had made deep observations while she noted in silence the changes that passed around her. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Your observations on what you have lately read concerning insects is very just and solid. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Space permits the submission of but a few observations and suggestions on these points:---- _Necessity_ is still the mother of inventions, but not of all of them. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• At the Cape Verde Islands he made some interesting observations of a white calcareous stratum which ran for miles along the coast at a height of a) bout forty-five feet above the water. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• That is one of Mr. Steffens's most acute observations. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• They are to guide and organize further observations, recollections, and experiments. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The elder De Candolle has made nearly similar observations on the general nature of the affinities of distinct families of plants. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Let us now join these three observations, and see what conclusion we can draw from them. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• When Lalande's records in Paris were studied, it was found that he had made two observations of Neptune on May 8 and 10. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• He was gifted with an imagination to tur n observations to account. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Sir William Herschel's observations, extended over many years, confirmed both the nebular hypothesis and the theory of the systemat ic arrangement of the stars. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Darwin's account of his adventures and manifold observations is so informal, so rich in detail, as not to admit of summary. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• From the pressure of Holmes's shoulder against mine, I knew that he was sharing my observations. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The very first interchange of slight observations sufficed to give each an idea of what the other was. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Lyell has made similar observations on some of the later tertiary formations. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• My observations of No. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• I too was awe-struck; being, however, under no pressure of slavish terror, my thoughts and observations were free. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• A consistent result could be obtained only by sacrificing the modern or the ancient observations. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• In their observations upon the prices of corn, three different circumstances seem frequently to have misled them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• A modification of this was afterward used on the French Atlantic lines for making an artificial horizon to take observations for position at sea. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Ultimately it was shown that the re were at least seventeen similar observations prior to 1781. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• One or two observations more will conclude this little piece. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• As soon as they came home this was reported to me by Mrs. Bucket, along with her observations and suspicions. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Similarly,' resumes Wegg, 'I have observations as I can offer upon certain points and parties; but I make no objections, Mr Venus. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Wot observations? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I got as near him as I could, but his observations seemed to me to be absurd, so I withdrew again in some disgust. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.

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